- Juvenile fiction, Grandfathers in fiction, World War, 1939-1945 in fiction, Fiction
When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a century before.
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Grave, earnest, overwhelming and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Mal Peet
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Random House, Walker Books Ltd, Walker Books, Limited
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781406303940
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